About the Authors

Jihong Li

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Kazuaki Miyamoto

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Wakayama Medical University School of Medicine, Wakayama, Japan

Sameera Sayeed

Current address: Science Department, Marywood University, Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Bruce A. McClane

bamcc@pitt.edu

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JL KM BAM. Performed the experiments: JL KM SS. Analyzed the data: JL KM BAM. Wrote the paper: JL BAM.